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Gatherers. Full Documentary

Adaptation to a specific vegetarian diet means that the animal becomes entirely dependent on certain vegetable species. That is exactly what happened to the lemurs on the island of Madagascar, just 400 kilometres from the south-east coast of Africa.

Eating meat is not easy. Meat is the body of another animal, an animal that runs, that tries to avoid being captured. Hunters need great physical capacity, and every attempt is a risk. Failures are frequent, and with each one hunger increases and energy is reduced. That is why the majority of the Survivors of the Planet Earth use a different system to obtain food.

Gathering means collecting, accumulating different things. Gatherer animals spend their whole time moving around, almost always eating grasses, fruits and leaves; but often they also come across honey, insects or eggs, which supplement their diet. Vegetables generally have fewer proteins than meat, but they are all around and do not flee. So, the only thing you need do is eat a great quantity of them and at the same time try to make sure the carnivores do not eat you.

Hunters and gatherers - both systems have their pros and their contras.
Hunters may spend weeks between one meal and the next, periods of enforced fasting which are compensated for when they are successful.

Adaptation to a specific vegetarian diet means that the animal becomes entirely dependent on certain vegetable species. That is exactly what happened to the lemurs on the island of Madagascar, just 400 kilometres from the south-east coast of Africa.
The lemurs became isolated in Madagascar and, unlike everywhere else on the planet, were saved from extinction there. In this way, the lemurs followed their parallel evolution and adapted to the different habitats and plant foods of the island.

The human hunter-gatherer rapidly refined his techniques, mastering his environment. Then, he learnt that instead of going in search of the plants where they grew, undergoing hardships like the elephants or the marine iguanas, he could plant them himself right by his home. A clearing in the forest, a refuge and a garden: this was the birth of agriculture, and with it sedentary man. This took place some 10,000 years ago, and was called the Neolithic Revolution.

Agriculture as such arose independently in various different regions of the world, and was the first of the great cultural advances which have transformed the planet, permitting human populations to multiply.

At this point, anther step in the cultural evolution of the human gatherer occurs. The harvested food is increasingly processed, leading to cooking, gastronomy, the meeting of the family and the clan around the fire or stove, and so eating becomes much more than simple ingestion of food. It then becomes a social act, strengthening bonds.